The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-26

words of the proprietor, the architect OF
nv own fortune Ny copy was not super
vised, | chose my own work and had gene
rally royal good time. From early in the
morning until dark l was with men, but
never did hear careless word or have one
directed to me- From the elevator boy up,
every man was courteous and jolly and alb
solutely respectful The fact that | was a
woman was never forgotten, nor yet was 1t
made the cause of undue attention. | was
simply taken in as one of u.s. and every
thing done to make my work pleasant AT
ter a year and half | left them and have
come into the office of morning paper to
try my hand at special work. 1t is quite
the same story here. | am expected to
work, and ought to work hard, but 1t is
made play almost by the fondness / have
for it, and, more important thing still, by
the consideration of those under whose
orders ! am"
Miss Mildly Morgan, the cattle reporter OF
the New York Times and probably the best
posted authority on live stock in America,
eXacts something more than respect-ad-
mration-for her success in phase OF
newspaper work the most difficult i'll many
ways that woman could undertake. Going
day after day, year in and year out up to
the cattle pens by the river and out on the
stock farms-she is as vivacious and inter
esting outside of her work as reliable IN it.
To the query what she thinks of newspaper
work as a business for women she returns
| the characteristic line:
"As entered journalism by chance and
remain in it through spirit of idleness,
feel incompetent to guide Others"
Miss Lillian Whiting, the literary editor
of the Boston Traveller, is widely known as
a Boston correspondent. She gives me
picture of certain pleasant fields in jour
nalism. She says:
THE true aim of all journalistic work
seems to me less what one can get out of
it than what one can put into it-that is, it
is especially the work which may be made q
persOnM contribution to ones day and
generation. Ali earnest thinking women
live for something higher, / take it, than
greed, or getting, or gain, and in every
privilege opened by the large horizon of
journalism find "A corresponding duty In
this way women journalists are contribut-
ing TO the intellectual and social progress of
the world Among these is held in sweetest
memory the name of Mary Clemer. Among
the more eminent editorial workers of the
day special tribute is due to Mrs. Margaret
| SuliiAsn. of Chicago, whose writing is
strong Y thought and exquisite in quality
Mrs. Sara A Underwood, another eminent
writer, who is associated with her husband
in the editorship of The Open Court; ,
Miss Mary ID. Fell, the strong and brilliant
literary reviewer of the New Orleans
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Boston, who is John Boyle O'Reillys able
assistant on the Pilot: Mrs. Colby, of
Nebraska, who publishes and edits the
Woman Tribune; Alice Stone Blackwell,
of the Woman'3 Journal; the young
and talented daughter of Mrs. Lucy
Stone and Henry B. Blackwell. Your
space and my time would fail if / ventured
to pursue names further and still the Boston
women journalists-Mrs. Sallie Joy White,
Mrs A. NJ. B. Ellis and Miss Josephine Jen-
| kins, of the Herald; Miss Grace Soper of
the Journal; Miss Minerva Caroline Smith,
of the Advertiser: Mrs. Washburn, of the
| Globe; Miss Twombly, keen art critic
and able correspondent, and others | wish
space permitted me to name, are each, in
her special line, doing work that is full of
value to their respective journals, full of
interest to the public, that must be- am
sure, means of that constantly growing
| happiness to themselves that all work, earn
estly done, cannot fail to give. Nearly,
perhaps, quite all, the journalists l mention
not only contribute this quota to the spe-
cial journal on which they are engaged, but
are also writers of poems, stories and
charming correspondence, or contributors to
magazines or authors of books
| Journalism offers - them field full of
charm, of possibilities for constant intellec-
tual culture for getting good by doing good.
| What more can we as women who hold
some higher ideal aims amid all our real
work ask. To me, as | see the happy, ever
growing, ever-gladdening lives, journalism
| seems full of infinite possibilities for the no
BILE living, and | feel toward it much as
the young couple did toward their blue
China, long to live up to it,"
Boston is the paradise of newspaper
women. Miss Grace Soper, who is a clever
editorial writer on the Boston Journal,
expresses satisfaction with her work and a
| Smith, of the Boston Advertiser, is a
plucky Western girl who was for long
time on the Chicago Inter- Ocean. She,
| too, likes newspaper work and succeeds in it.
Olive Logan never attempts to conceal her
| enthusiasm for her vocation. The last time
| saw her she said:
Il like newspaper work because | like
newspaper people. OF all men they are the
most genial, the most kindly, the most in
clined to good comradeship. like it, too
because it brings me i'll touch with women.
| am interested in all that interests women
and like to write for them and to them. y
Miss Mary l.. Booth, the editor of Harp
eI''S Bdzur, puts as the requisite for a wo
mans success i'll Journalistic work, the
ability for continuous effort. She herself
| keeps daily Office hours, from until 4, and
for nineteen years, that is, from the day OF
the foundation of the periodical, she had
not taken more than two weeks vacation al
time until her European outing of this
summer. She says:
Like woman's work. editorial work il
never done and the planning, of which il
very largely consists, goes on night and day
without interruption"
Mrs. Eliza Archard Conner, second il
command to Gertrude Garrison ON the
American Press Association, New York
says that she received but $40 for her frs
six months newspaper work, but that
woman who has nose for news and news
paper instincts can succeed if she persevere
and makes place for herself. Mrs. Laura
c. Holloway, for years on the staff of tn,
Brooklyn Eagle, liked newspaper work 81
well that since her graduation into maya
zine work and booliwriting, she has con
tinued to do more or less journalistic work
too.
OF the outlook for newspaper women anC
tSeir prospects i'll the immediate future,
newspaper -lan, the managing editor of ,
city daily, tells me:
Il am fully convinced that women will d.
a much greater proportion of the newspapers
work of the future than they are doing o
to-day's There is no reason why aOou
onethird of the editorial and reportoria
staff of any city daily should not be women
Under the present conditions of the news
paper trade the managing editor, the city
editor, sporting editor and many of the re
porters are necessarily men, but womel